Your Name‘s Anime Locations Compared With The Real-World Ones

A big part of Your Name takes place in Tokyo. Over on Tofugu.com, Kanae Nakamine visited the real-world locations depicted in the movie.  The resulting comparisons between the anime and real life are fascinating. Nakamine also created a helpful itinerary in case you want to make a Your Name seichijunrei (聖地巡礼) or pilgrimage, visiting the…

Years Later, The Laputa: Castle In The Sky‘s Minecraft Recreation Is Done

For the past several years, Mocchi Hajikura has been working on recreating the classic Studio Ghibli film Laputa: Castle In The Sky in Minecraft. His work is now finished. Hajikura started uploading his Laputa recreations to YouTube in 2013.  In 2015, he created this clip to correspond with Laputa: Castle In The Sky’s Japanese television…

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Players Slam Classic Star Wars: Battlefront 2 PC’s Servers After Online Multiplayer Returns

Do you have fond memories of playing the 2005 version of Star Wars: Battlefront 2? Do you wish with every fiber of your being that it had official online servers again? Well then, good news: your wish just came true, somehow. On both Steam and GOG, the PC version of the original Battlefront 2 has…

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Had A Rough Weekend

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite’s reputation has taken a hit in its second week of competition. Blame an inescapable combo some players are hoping gets banned, low attendance at an official Capcom event, and a rules fiasco that affected the finals of an important tournament. The Spider-Man infinite problem Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite includes two specific…

Breath of the Wild‘s Biggest Design Secret: Lots Of Triangles

Running through the Hyrule of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you come across breathtaking sights one after the other: Massive fortresses, dizzyingly high towers, vast open plains. But according to the open-world game’s designers, the two most salient features of Hyrule were triangles and rectangles. The annual Computer Entertainment Developers Conference is…

Speedrunner Beats Divinity: Original Sin 2 In 38 Minutes

It took 81 hours crammed into a week-and-a-half for me to finish Divinity: Original Sin 2‘s main story. It is, then, hard to not feel conflicted when I tell you that somebody just beat the game in a little over 30 minutes. Onin is a speedrunner who set his sights on Original Sin 2 a…

Tell Us: Do You Close The Door Behind You In Battlegrounds?

In Battlegrounds, I always close the door behind me. It’s not a matter of strategy so much as it’s a psychological thing—it makes me feel safe. The house I’ve entered is a safe, isolated little haven full of goodies just for me, and nobody, ever, will come up behind me and shoot me in the…

Archeologist Digs Into Remains of No Man’s Sky Abandoned Player Civilization

When No Man’s Sky launched last year, an archaeology PhD student led a team of 30 players on a survey intending to understand the algorithms that built the game’s worlds. This initial foray didn’t pan out, as the game was missing features he needed to properly excavate. But after the 1.3 update, which radically altered…

Forza 7 Turns The Series’ VIP Upgrade Into Something Not Worth Paying For [Update]

Forza Motorsport 6‘s $20 VIP upgrade gave players exclusive cars, special online events and, best of all, double credit earnings for races. Forza 7‘s $20 VIP upgrade swaps the always-on double credit bonus for five limited-use “mod cards.” Boo. Update: Big changes coming in response to player feedback. The double racing credit bonus has been…

Chinese Players Review-Bomb Battlegrounds For Server Lag [UPDATE]

Battlegrounds’ Steam reviews tanked over the weekend after over 20,000 negative reviews, many from China, flooded the blockbuster survival-shooter’s page. Chinese players appear to be suffering from the worst connectivity to Battlegrounds in the world and these players are furious that, now, Battlegrounds is advertising a paid, third-party “internet accelerator” right on its menu. After…

Developer Used Fake Secrets To Sneak Games Through Sega’s Certification Process

Getting a game through a publisher’s certification process can be difficult. Games are tested in extreme conditions and fail for the slightest error. In the 90s, one developer snuck their games through Sega’s certification with a few clever tricks that disguised glitches as part of the game. Traveler’s Tale founder Jon Burton describes his secretsin…

New Album Turns Video Game Battle Music Into Jazzy Lullabies

Due out on October 10, Prescription for Sleep: Fight For Your Dreams turns pulse-pounding battle themes from Final Fantasy XV, Undertale, Mega Man, Transformers: The Movie and more into the musical equivalent of sleepytime tea. Battle music in games (and animated features) is generally crafted excite players, preparing them for a life-or-death struggle against the…